COMMITS: Tennessee Football ADDS Xavier Gilliam & Cooper Ranvier from Transfer Portal – MUCH NEEDED

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🗓️ 9 January 2026

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Tennessee football coach Josh Heupel added some much-needed help from the transfer portal Thursday night with the commitments from former Penn State defensive tackle Xavier Gilliam and former Louisville kicker Cooper Ranvier. Has Tennessee’s tide turned in the transfer portal after a slow start? Who else is on campus and what other targets will be coming to campus this weekend for the Vols? How many more commitments will there be on Monday afternoon and what’s the update with quarterback Sam Leavitt? Eric Cain breaks it all down on the bonus Friday show of Locked on Vols.

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0:00.0	Not one, but two commits from the transfer portal on a Thursday night.
0:04.6	And it feels like Tennessee might have turned a corner here in this portal cycle.
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0:39.8	I am your host, Eric Kane, a member of the
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0:44.4	volunteers.
0:45.0	Appreciate you guys for being here.
0:46.7	Checking us out here today.
0:47.7	Had a regularly, regularly programmed Friday show this morning.
0:54.1	But as is portal season, things happen at night and, um, regularly programmed Friday show this morning.
0:57.0	But as is portal season, things happen at night.
1:00.1	And I wanted to make sure I got back out in front of you guys and not talk about the two commits that Sennessy got from Thursday night before Monday morning comes around.
1:06.0	And there could be more over the weekend.
1:07.8	Maybe we'll do this again.
1:08.9	But I wanted to make sure we chimed in on two of the commits that Tennessee picked up on Thursday night. That means Tennessee now has five transfer portal commits. And a couple of names that we've been talking about for a while now, and one that's been talking about for like a week, and that's Xavier Gilliam, and he jumps in the boat with Tennessee. That's the Penn State defensive tackle.
1:46.9	So we're going to talk about him. We're going to talk about a kicker. Tennessee found a kicker in the transfer portal. And then who is on campus now? Who's coming this weekend? And could there be any more commitments via the transfer portal before Monday morning, all that and more coming up over the next 15 minutes or so right here on lockdown balls Balls. Every day,ers, thanks so much for tuning in and checking us out here today.
1:53.7	Let's talk about Xavier Gilliam. He is a defensive tackle, 6 foot to about 300 pounds,
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